sharke
What I don't see myself doing is a project start to finish in Mixbus.

I see it as send dry stems to MB3 from SONAR. Maybe EQ'd some and maybe with automation.
 
Then simply use MB3 as the console with the addition of plugs (MB3 or 3rd party).

Once in MB3, all tracking is "complete".
 

I own it but I never bothered to re-install it when I upgraded the computer last year.
 
Most of my projects start to mix themselves as I am writing. If I were recording a band, and the project was somewhat more linear, maybe. But as it is, I always have elements of sound design active in the projets, busses, effects, even rudimentary EQ. I'll often have tons of tracks with just bits of audio, all split and routed to different places. 
 
Just figuring out what needs to be exported how would be a waste of time. 
 
That's not mentioning that I prefer and am much more comfortable with the automation in my DAW. At one point I toyed with the idea of routing out the audio from Logic to MixBus, but I'd rather focus on the mix than on technical stuff.

Rain has the right of it (for him).
 
Just as <insert DAW name here> is not for everyone, it might be just the ticket for others. 

<insert DAW name here> works most of the time for me

Rain
I own it but I never bothered to re-install it when I upgraded the computer last year.
 
Most of my projects start to mix themselves as I am writing. If I were recording a band, and the project was somewhat more linear, maybe. But as it is, I always have elements of sound design active in the projets, busses, effects, even rudimentary EQ. I'll often have tons of tracks with just bits of audio, all split and routed to different places. 
 
Just figuring out what needs to be exported how would be a waste of time. 
 
That's not mentioning that I prefer and am much more comfortable with the automation in my DAW. At one point I toyed with the idea of routing out the audio from Logic to MixBus, but I'd rather focus on the mix than on technical stuff.

I'm almost exactly the same.  When I'm done recording, it is just usually final tweaking...then "select all > export".

It doesn't seem logical to make it a VST.   Also more hassle from the development end when it doesn't work in a DAW. We all had a plugin or two that wouldn't work in a specific DAW.

And although there is a VST standard, I'm seeing (on the MB3 forum) that not everyone conforms to or sometimes omits parts of the standard. IIRC Noel had to make SONAR code changes to make sure certain VST3 plugs would work in SONAR as they did not conform to the new standard.

bapu
Richard,
 
I wish I could post some snippets of the track I'm working on but it's covered by an NDA.

No Dick Allowed
 
That is fine, I just ended up letting the latest big Windows update through to all my machines including my 2 DAW PC's, I was a bit nervous about that, but now I don't know what I was worried about, so maybe I'll brave it in the not to distant future.

Like any tool, it may not WOW you for the type of work you do, but it is a tool I'll use for sure.